CFL or Flourescent Grow Lights What You Need to Know to Buy and Build the Best Grow Operation. Native Plants for the Cottage Garden. Design: Remarkable Adorable Gray Sofa Bed Sale Ikea With Ikea Couch Bed And Stunning Leg Sofa. Hand Thrown Ceramic Planter - Celadon - Shop Pottery, Ceramics, More! – Pistils Nursery. Large Outdoor Planters: A Front Door’s Best Friends Photos. Small-Scale and Savvy - Birmingham Home & Garden - May/June 2014 - Birmingham. An imaginative landscape renovation reclaims a lawn for living. text by Lucy Merrill • styling by Scott Martin and Tommy Porter • photography by Jean Allsopp Cynthia Massey calls her residence a garden home, for lack of a better term to describe the contemporary concept of more floor space and less lot.
But the original tangled wilderness she saw from her back windows certainly did not meet the definition of a “garden.” “The backyard was a narrow area with a significant grade, and it was invaded by kudzu,” Cynthia says. “It was completely unusable.” In Full Circle: The Japanese Garden as a Work of Art in Progress. Japanese Stone Paths. Favorite combination. The "red" in my "red and white garden" is delivered through monarda 'Jacob Cline' along with a mass planting of bright red salvia greggii, crocosmia 'Lucifer'.
The red salvia blooms first, followed by the monarda, then the crocosmia. The white daisies are planted uphill and for now, provide most of the "white" in this garden. Gardening Advice: Tips for designing and planting a large perennial borders. Q: I cleared an 80 by 10 feet strip along the side of my yard for my longtime dream — a large perennial border.
While I was full of optimism digging up the grass and amending the soil, I’m now overwhelmed by the process of designing the border. I have a good idea of what plants I want, but how do I incorporate them effectively on such a large scale? — Clay Hunn, Round Rock, Texas. Placing Pots and Garden Ornaments. Placing Pots and Garden Ornaments A list of ideas and principles by Gordon Hayward So many decisions we make when developing a garden have to do with finding the right place for everything: paths, beds, a gazebo or a fence, plants as well as pots and garden ornaments.
When you keep in mind that gardens are for people, and that your job as a garden designer is to draw your friends and visitors along an engaging, varied and exciting itinerary, you will find appropriate uses for pots, both planted and unplanted. Volunteer Gardener. Pinterest. Plants with Red or Purple Colored Foliage. Michigan Gardening. You may copy and/or share this article for personal or non-profit use only.
If you would like to order reprints for any other reason, please email us at contact@statebystategardening.com Photo courtesy of Mengmeng Gu. One of the native ornamental grasses that has received a considerable amount of attention the past few years is muhly grass. Not likely to be noticed in the spring and summer, it puts on quite a show in the landscape during the fall. When other ornamental grasses are falling down and foliage is looking bad, this native will be covered with a pink cloud of wispy flower heads held high above the wiry foliage. Photo courtesy of D. Photo courtesy of Sid Mullis. Photo courtesy of Shannon Pable. Expert Landscape Design Rules - Landscaping Network. Swipe to view slides A student created plan that starts from the house and works outwards.
This student's plan incorporates geometric shapes with straight lines near the home. A skilled designer knows how to successfully break the rules, as this student's plan shows. 8 Landscape Design Principles. It’s tempting, in a field as subjective as garden design, to feel that rules do not apply.
However, after 28 years and hundreds of projects later, I’ve come to believe in certain rules and guidelines that are neither fussy nor constraining. All have proven invaluable to me over my years of garden-making. Applied by any gardener, amateur or professional, they will result in a more successful, satisfying design. Today in the Garden of a Lifetime: Directional Fall Foliage of the Portal of Persian Ironwood. Published: October 28 2015 Persian ironwood is renowned for its Fall foliage, which can last for well over a month and transition through rust, orange, and red to yellow and pink.
The dark and muted colors here are the early ones in the show; after a few more frosts, the leaves will take on a stronger yellow echoing the developing spirals of 'Yellow Ribbon' arborvitae. Only this week did I realize that ironwood's Fall foliage doesn't progress at the same rate on all sides of the tree. Variegated Weeping Korean Dogwood. Published: August 14 2013 The bracts of Korean dogwoods can be effective for a month or more.
Even so, by July they're done. Variegated foliage keeps up the interest, in Spring before the bracts have emerged, and Summer into Fall, after they're gone. Photos from KarlGercens.com GARDEN LECTURES. Badge creator Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.
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Manihot grahamii. Manihot grahamii For reasons unknown to me, my most popular photo on Flickr today was Manihot grahamii (Euphorbiaceae). This is an old photo, showing a group of seedlings that popped up in 2010 from a plant that had gone to seed in 2008, 2 years earlier. Danger garden: Percolating… The idea of a shallow metal dish planted with succulents and mounted atop a pole has been working its way around inside my head for a several years now.
I think the first time I saw such a thing was from the Big Red Sun in Austin, TX. I can picture many examples but this is the only one I can find to share with you… Installations done by Big Red Sun tend to be quite large and thus quite expensive…meaning not something I could ever hope to own. Big daddy hosta pictures. Mini Succulent Arrangements in Unconventional Pots – Leaf & Clay. I quite frequently am asked about how I make my mini succulent arrangements: what type of succulent to use, how often to water, what about drainage holes, when to put it in a more conventional pot, etc. I thought I'd take the opportunity to write a short How-To so that I can hopefully shed some light on the process. For this project, I will be using shells, hot sauce bottle lids, a package that held Scentsy wax, and a cork from a wine bottle to make my mini succulent creations!
What you'll need: Succulent/cacti dirtScissorsLarge tweezersAn eyedropperMini pots of your choiceSucculent cuttingsHoffman "Western Desert Sand" King Garden Designs. Boething Treeland Farms Reference Tables. Thepaintboxgarden. Janet Davis Explores Colour. A little holiday song, for those who’ve stuck it out through my Twelve Months of Colour blogs in 2016: Silver belles, silver belles, It’s Christmas time in the city. How to Draw a Garden Plan. Americanmeadows. The Color Purple. Evergreens aren’t bad in the garden. A lush green or blue spruce tree adds color to every landscape right from January to December. A Terrific Duo to Try: Achillea and Festuca.
The Dark Side: Plants with Black or Purple Foliage – Master Gardener Program. A Shade Loving Border Idea with Hemerocallis, Hosta and Tiger Lilies. Welcome to Vertical Garden Patrick Blanc. McCullough's Landscape & Nursery. McCullough's Landscape & Nursery. Prairie dropseed in design. Lemon Yellow Rosemallow, Sun Hibiscus, Wildestokroos - Tropical Plants - Almost Eden. Large, 4", primrose yellow flowers with a dark, nearly black, burgundy eye are borne from summer to fall. Le Jardin Agapanthe, jardin contemporain en Normandie.
Le Jardin Agapanthe est situé en Normandie et plus précisément à Grigneuseville, dans un petit village au nord de Rouen. C'est avant tout le laboratoire d’Alexandre Thomas. Garden design by Cornwall designer based in Falmouth. Pondless Waterfalls. How to care for succulents & make a succulent wall planter. Nature One Inc - Landscape Design, Installation, Maintenance. Tropical Plants: Down & Dirty With Jim Martin. Planting a Shrub. The Hanging Hostas of Hampshire.wmv. Understand Shapes and How to use Them in Landscape Design. Pleaching Trees - Miranda's Garden - Vogue. Nashville Public Television Video. Nashville Public Television Video. Nashville Public Television Video. Volunteer Gardener. Shade and Sun Garden. Landscape Vignettes into Cohesive Design. Border Beds and Island Beds. Volunteer Gardener. Principles of Landscape Design. Creative Ways To Use Bricks In The Garden. Japanese Pachysandra (Terminalis) - Spurge Ground Cover. Taxonomy and Plant Type for Japanese Pachysandra: Plant taxonomy classifies Japanese pachysandra (also called "Japanese spurge") as Pachysandra terminalis.
The plant is in the boxwood family. These widely grown plants are evergreen perennials. They are herbaceous in the sense that they lack woody stems, but their foliage does not die back in winter (it merely yellows a bit). In terms of usage, Pachysandra terminalis plants are classified as ground covers. Characteristics of Japanese Pachysandra, Related Plants: Wider than it is tall, this ground cover spreads via underground runners. Japanese pachysandra has an American relative called "Allegheny spurge" (Pachysandra procumbens), a plant native to the Southeast.
But there are many plants with the common name of "spurge" that are not related to Japanese pachysandra. Sun and Soil Requirements, Planting zones: How to Build a Portable Planter - Bonnie Plants. Color, Color Everywhere. Colored Foliage adds that WOW FACTOR to a garden! Green, Blue-Green, Chartreuse, Burgundy and Gray foliage. My garden, here at Whimsey Hill House starts blooming in April, is a wonderful sight throughout the summer, and is done blooming, cut back, and run over with the lawn mower by the middle-end of October.
I have perennials and annuals that, basically, throughout the growing season, give quite a display. Shade Garden Plants (Zones 4-8): List of Shady Suspects. If you're here to consult this list of shade garden plants for planting zones 4-8 as a beginner, a simple listing of the name, rank, and serial number of each plant may not be sufficient. Top 10 Flowers for Shading Your Garden. Top 10 Perennials of the 21st Century - Perennial Gardening. Design & Layout - Perennial Gardening. How to Layer a Bed for Curb Appeal. Downspout Cover Trellis - Green Wire Trellis - Gutter Cover. 27 Best Small Storage Shed Projects (Ideas and Designs) for 2017. BonsaiNurseryman: Trunk Movement. SELF GUIDED TOUR FOR PLANT FANS. Forsythia Alternatives: Great Spring-flowering Shrubs - HorticultureHorticulture.
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